archive: 2009-2020
SURVIVAL SKILLS:
From 2019-2020, I explored the personal narrative of my first year of motherhood through my textile practice. Using my own records and experience within my immediate landscape, these new works focus on the repetition of daily life with a new baby.
The Liminal Project:
The Liminal Project explores the transitional space where land meets sea. Aerial images, mapping techniques and geographical data are translated through the process of hand-weaving, embroidery and crochet. Striving to translate technical data about the landscape that surrounds us into tangible textiles, collection of textile work interprets the changing shorelines of Canada's east coast, specifically the vulnerable shorelines of Prince Edward Island.
home terrain:
Home Terrain explores changes to population and place in Atlantic Canada. Referencing the terrain of Canada's East Coast, this work depicts the demographic and environmental forces that shape our cultural landscape. Using statistical data to create woven graphs, specialized hand-weaving techniques build imagery while integrating traditional textile patterning. The traditional, labour-intensive process of fibre production acts as a translation tool to make tangible our shifting environment and culture.
installations:
Drawing connections between the physical boundaries within public spaces, both 'Suspended Access' (2011) and 'Future Shoreline' (2014) suggest alterations to our existing environment. A rope bridge suspended between the roof lines of a brutalist building complex (the Confederation Centre of the Arts) invites contemplation of an otherwise inaccessible perspective on downtown Charlottetown. A snaking line of blue stakes illuminated at night with LED lights charts the future shoreline of Victoria Park (Charlottetown) with the prediction of impending sea level rise.
